Wounding Quotes

41 quotes by 39 authors

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure. Being open to the wounds of life means… — Stephen Russell
No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up… — William Shakespeare
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a… — Anjelica Huston
Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not… — Margaret Thatcher
No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live.… — Daisaku Ikeda
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds… — Rachel Naomi Remen
When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly… — D. H. Lawrence
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. — Linda Hogan
Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there… — John Bunyan
It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and… — Eleanor Catton
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of… — Steven Levenkron
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding… — Sarah Dessen
The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. — Hank Johnson
Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see… — Ban Ki-moon
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make… — John Sutter
It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity — CharityBlaise Pascal
You called me selfish, I turned away, I festered and I fled; Cutting and wounding and lashing out, Just to see if you bled... — VishEmo
Thank you God for giving me such a talent; to smile and talk so sweetly, that nobody could ever doubt what wounding, dark, dismal, sinister,… — Akila Sultana

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